The live recording 'A Thousand' was performed and recorded in March 2015 at the now defunct Hub 14 space and is presented here in a truncated from. The choir vocalists are Jonathan Adjemian, Felicity Williams, Alex Samaras and Robin Dann– the latter 3 are the soloists.
The form is a kind of directed improvisation. I am 'conducting' the choir accompaniment and the solists are leading and or responding as they feel, while reading/singing through passages of text from a book while more or less opening to a random page. The choir begins with earplugs in, with only some conductive hand gestures to guide them, then they are taken out as the solos move forward.
The recording is special to me because the performance was constantly being interrupted by phones dropping, electrical interference from someone plugging in their phone to charge, and some persistent late-comers. Its eventful. It is dynamic. There is a beautiful sense of space despite the raggedness of it all.
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